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The Daily PollOASIS HAVE EXPANDED their reunion tour to Australia, but this time they won’t use dynamic pricing when tickets go on sale.
The legendary band announced on Instagram that they will perform in Melbourne and Sydney, after their US dates sold out last week.
While Australia might be a bit of leap, travelling to a different country to see your favourite artist has become popular amongst concert-goers.
Many Irish Oasis fans scrambled to get their hands on UK tour tickets after being unable to secure Dublin tour dates, and Taylor Swift fans from all over the world came to Ireland earlier this summer to catch the US singer perform in the Aviva Stadium.
So today we’re asking: Have you ever travelled abroad for a concert?
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It’s probably cheaper than going to one in Dublin!
yes, been to Paris, Barcelona, London, Oslo for concerts. anything to avoid having to set foot back in dublin.
@Niall English: they don’t like the English
@Buster Lawless: What are you on about??
@The Firestarter: in Dublin
@Buster Lawless: You don’t like the English, or they don’t like them in Dublin. Still have absolutely no idea what you are on about in the context of this article??
@The Firestarter: what are you on about dumbo?
Went to London two years ago for Coldplay. Flights €59, hotel €179. Tickets €82. It was cheaper than one night in a price gouging hotel in Dublin during concert season. Don’t get me started on Ticketmaster…..
@Gemma Sexton: Ah g’wan
@Gemma Sexton: they are very boring, what a waste.
@Buster Lawless: don’t know about that. Boring bands don’t sell out croke park for 4 nights and sell out Wembley for 12 nights. Have you been?
@Gemma Sexton: Well people follow the crowd you see and go for the sake of it. They are a bit like teachers pretending to be in a band don’t you agree?
@Buster Lawless: well they’re no Metallica, but pretty good all the same..
Prince in the London dome – great weekend & great concert, tickets were cheap too !
Bob Dylan in Earl’s Court many, many years ago
I’m getting misty eyed now!!!!
@Padraig O’Brien: Bob Dylan in London, Bournemouth, Liverpool, Philadelphia, New York and probably a few others.. Those early 2000’s shows were amazing.
@Declan Doherty: he is awful live. Very poor shows.
Yes a few times saw Coldplay in Budapest in June we got 5 nights hotel our flights and tickets for concert for €600 each and pints were €2.50 why would anyone go to that kip Dublin?
@Keith: boring!
@Buster Lawless: you have a lot to say about everything I’d say your a sad troll that only goes to post office to collect your dole
David Bowie at Milton Keynes, 1983.
@Des Hanrahan: Wow
Yes, Frank Sinatra in the Royal Albert Hall
@Dermot Blaine: er he’s dead years
@Buster Lawless: but at one time, he wasnt
@Buster Lawless: stoopid response of the day. Well done you.
@Buster Lawless: yes indeed, well spotted, but he was still alive in 1982 when I saw him.
PS I’m old!
@Dermot Blaine: ah sorry, did not realise. Was it good?
@Ted Daly: back off, he did not mention it was 50 years ago bucko.
@Buster Lawless:
Question was.Have you ever.
@Buster Lawless: yeah great, I wasn’t a massive fan but my friends older brother had 2 spare tickets, he brought us. And in fairness, touts were getting hundreds for the tickets, a lot of money at the time. My first time in London, my first time abroad even, great memories
@Mary.E.: i have thanks. Have you?
@Dermot Blaine: brilliant, you must have gangster connections do you?
@Ted Daly: come back when you have actually been to a concert numb nuts
@Dermot Blaine: Now there’s a venue I would love to see a gig in, looks amazing on telly.
@The Firestarter: yeah it was, so long ago though some of the memories are a bit vague. Even from the outside it’s an amazing building.
The Grateful Dead in Rhode Island in ’87. Gig/short holiday combo. Don’t remember a lot about it.
Yep, always to the States, extra excuse for a holiday.
Ac dc in the o2 in London. Brilliant gig.
Did a festival abroad too. Got a holiday and a festival in the sunshine for 5 days and still probably cheaper than Dublin.
Went to Belfast to see Fatboy Slim, does that count?
@The Firestarter: no in Ireland
@The Firestarter: I was there for both his Brighton beach gigs-absolutley amazing!
Yeah a few, but Kate Bush in London being the best of the lot.
@JC: snap
You can get a weekend away and a gig for the price of an overnight stay in Dublin. Extortionist prices for a bed in our Capital City!
I have never been to a concert. They are too expensive and unreasonable noisy. I would rather spend the money on all the CD’s that my favourite artists produce and have change left over. I also do not want to damage my ears. The Marlay Park concerts can be heard very well in my back garden and it’s half a mile away.
@John Hagin Meade: jaysus you’re tight
@Jason Higgins: Maybe, but my hearing is very good and I can still hear a 14KHz tone even though I am almost 74.
I love techno,Gent, Belgium,yurt!!
U2 many times including Las Vegas. And I’ll be on the road in North America to see Oasis next year. It’s like having a football team and getting into Europe.
Been to loads of gigs in Dublin. Bands wouldn’t play Belfast back in the day. Too many bombs. Few gigs in Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Serbia.
Punks not dead.
Not for concerts by specific acts, but have been abroad for music festivals, Guinness Fleadh in New York a couple of times and T in the Park in Scotland .
Took the missus to see Celine Dion in Vegas!
Yes, U2 in Madison square gardens.
@Eamon: I’d say that was epic!
Prodigy in Brixton two nights in a row.Was absolutely brilliant craic
I saw popeye in.brazil it was brilliant
I flew from Dublin to Cork to see Michael Jackson. Think it was 87 does that count.
Pixies in Porto, Smashing Pumpkins in Prague, PJ Harvey in Bristol…. Loads of European summer festivals. Enjoy it much more than a night in Dublin.
faith no moe in poznan , krakow , london and edinburgh
Starting with Live Aid in 85.. tickets 25 quid. Also knebworth with Pink Floyd in 90 and Prince in Wembley arena in 88. Can’t remember the rest
Yes but as a guest of the band. ( I know I’m a show off)
Arctic monkeys in Sheffield 2023.
Andre Bochelli in Liechtenstein, Billy Joel in the MSG and Celine in Vegas….
Richard Ashcroft, Delamere Forest. Brilliant.
Many times. Sometimes for work, very often as a punter. A nice change of scene and experience.
Way cheaper.
I know people midland ,never had a passport
@sakk sa: I have a Passport but the last time I was out of Ireland was 2008. Ireland has so much to offer although rather expensive.
Tool 2008 in the Point unreal gig
Madrugada in Belgium.
Kate Bush, 2014 Before The Dawn Hammersmith Apollo. What a show
Hang Massive in bristol
Architects in Copenhagen
Electric Callboy in Vienna
Rammstein in Denmark
Chvrches in Cologne
Going abroad for a gig is great fun tbf
Few times, mostly to places in the US, but headed to Glasgow too.
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